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Caroline Kangas
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“The gun is our Moloch”
To sacrifice the life of a child is to honor the god Moloch. Garry Wills, at the New York Review of Books Blog unearths America’s not-so-secret shrines to Moloch: “The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology,…
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Congratulations, Roxane!
Two months ago, Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay said, “hey, when’s it my turn?” Now, her turn has come. Congratulations to Roxane on her two book deals. We can’t wait to read them.
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“looping through the highlight reel of our lives”
Rumpus columnist Steve Almond reviews Chris Ware’s Building Stories for The New Republic. As a self-proclaimed nitwitted graphic novel critic with no qualifications, Almond beautifully reviews not only the content of Building Stories but also shares his experience reading the “weirdo picture book”…
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Divorce comes to Sesame Street
“This isn’t an easy topic, but that’s the beauty of muppets. They can do things that even some grownups can’t.” Tumblr Storyboard and TIME showcase the process of bringing touchy subjects to Sesame Street. The program is well prepared for…
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“I should explain—if nothing else, explanation is my birthright.”
Original short story from the new fiction section at Tablet. Joshua Cohen’s “Fat” tells of adventures in New York City; most notably rushing to be home by dark on Friday night with forty pounds of fat for soup stock.
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New e-book from Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell, Rumpus contributor and author of the essay collection Legs Get Led Astray, comes out with “The New Age Camp,” a new e-book from Thought Catalog. Get ready for “a summer of Reiki healing, menstrual moon cycle charts, trance dances,…
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A Farewell to Cats
Ernest Hemingway fell in love with polydactyl (six-toed) cats after he was given one by a ship’s captain. Now the descendants of his cats live free on the property of his former home turned museum in Key West. Well, the forty to…
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Ode to Silent Spring
“Had we been lied to, not only about pesticides, but about progress, and development, and discovery, and the whole ball of wax?” In The Guardian, Margaret Atwood reminds us of the importance of one of the first environmentalist writers, Rachel Carson.…
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Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
Today is the birthday of the famous recluse who once wrote: Birthday of but a single pang That there are less to come — Afflictive is the Adjective But affluent the doom — Interpret as you will and join those…
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Reminder of the Importance of NASA
Glasses, extra light wheelchairs, satellite technology, and even moon boot technology in KangaROOs. But even more impressive is NASA’s ability to get Gloria Steinem and Charlton Heston in the same room. Just a few days after many were disappointed by…
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“community can bind tighter than blood”
The A.V. Club reviews recent Rumpus Book Club pick Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins. Reviewer Ellen Wernecke says: “The Middlesteins calls back to Richard Ford’s untidy domestic dramas, which spill out into the streets beyond. In this book, the promise of the nuclear…
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Cheryl Strayed in the NY Times “Dream Dozen”
In their article “Twelve for ’12,” The New York Times gives love to Wild and Dear Sugar. Ala the twelve days of Christmas, Cheryl is number five and wearing five golden rings. (She did not get to keep them.)